Excellent points. > In a language with good metaprogramming facilities, the parser is written in the language ... it integrates better with the language. Your

Excellent points. > In a language with good metaprogramming facilities, the parser is written in the language ... it integrates better with the language. Your point was about how a good language makes it easy to parse another language into your desired langauge. I recently noticed the converse is true too. A good language makes it easy to output code in another language In Clojure (and I suspect other lisps), it is quite common to see clojure literals used to generate code in other languages. i.e. in compojure, a webapp framework, the html generation code is entirely clojure literals: (html [:body [:div [:a {:href "www.google.com"} "click me"]]]) generates: <body><div><a href="www.google.com">click me</a></div></body> There are plenty of examples of this for html generation, SQL generation, and in one CL library, even C source code generation.